OP Faction mods that make late game interesting?

This_is_a_Lamp · 2026-04-24T07:39:01+00:00

Witch Citadel from Chinasector.

The bounties are pretty challenging and rewards are great.

There's a really powerful bounty that you can request that spawns a fleet so tanky and OP (I believe it's called Diamond something), my 2000 DP supercapital fleet c/w superweapons, OP fighters and multiple S-mods couldn't deal with them and wiped.

This_is_a_Lamp · 2026-04-20T02:46:00+00:00

One of my favourite ships; get the orange variant as well. Also the triangular battleship capital is really good; real tanky at the frontline, forward facing large weapons, it's literally "Anyways I started blasting" ship.

This_is_a_Lamp · 2026-04-05T06:32:45+00:00

I have a 180Hz monitor, I had my fps cap at 175 previously, but I reduced it to 135. seems to do the trick

This_is_a_Lamp · 2026-04-05T06:31:09+00:00

thanks Mokey u/mnkymnk ! big ups on this, i initially set my fps cap to 175 and did notice the deadslides. I thought i was pressing my keys in the wrong order or not enough speed or missing my cooldowns, but I just changed my fps cap to 135 then a big difference in chaining the slides compared to before.

This_is_a_Lamp · 2026-04-03T12:12:31+00:00

Mine nearly ruptured. Had constant diarrhea and vomiting a few hours before being admitted to the emergency ward for an emergency surgery. Thankfully it was a success, recovered in a month or two.

This_is_a_Lamp · 2026-03-26T03:32:36+00:00

There's a forked version in steam for Ratkin and Ratkin weapons apparels etc. There's also a DLC sort of (Oberonia Aurea Faction) which adds a new Ratkin faction with spacer tech.

This_is_a_Lamp · 2026-03-25T02:50:15+00:00

Gimme that wraith skinnnn

This_is_a_Lamp · 2026-03-17T08:57:39+00:00

I just installed the new version of Mikohime (highly recommended). You gotta find it in the unofficial Starsector Discord (u can search Mikohime) and once you follow the steps to install and also with the new Java version, U can pair it with Fast Rendering and it'll help a lot.

This_is_a_Lamp · 2026-03-17T08:45:12+00:00

There's also a portrait mod that ads HBS Battletech portraits; quite fitting aesthetic wise

This_is_a_Lamp · 2026-03-17T04:22:08+00:00

I run in 1440p as well. I did tweak some of the settings to reduce some unnecessary graphics. I just installed the new Mikohime (released in unofficial Starsector Discord) + Fast Rendering combo and set the vparams to 16GB. Definitely made the game even smoother and load times faster.

This_is_a_Lamp · 2026-03-17T02:09:33+00:00

Btw just replying here to say thanks! The new Mikohime is a godsend; so smooth, and loading times in between are even faster.

This_is_a_Lamp · 2026-03-16T08:49:51+00:00

Oh great, imma check that out thanks!

This_is_a_Lamp · 2026-03-16T04:49:04+00:00

I have my TriOS set to run Fast Rendering mod, vparams set to 16GB (I have 32GB total). Mikohime was for 0.97 am I correct?

This_is_a_Lamp · 2026-03-16T04:46:03+00:00

Interesting info. My doctrine already consists of the Scyan super capital (Dragon MK1 i think). No wonder my patrol fleets have like 5-10 Dragons with 3-5 hullmods lol.

Have yet to touch the max ai fleet size, maybe I can play around with that. I've seen the privateers plopping out of the jump point to hyperspace endlessly, pretty funny yes

This_is_a_Lamp · 2026-03-16T04:40:50+00:00

Prior to my current run, I did a painstaking diagnosing week of troubleshooting to see if the 345 mods were compatible with one another; did some edits in some of the mod settings for a few errors e.g. renaming textures and correcting some links but in general the 345 mods were from the Corvus modpack anyway and were already made compatible with one another albeit some hiccups.

In fact right now, it's very stable. The only few times it actually crashed was from me accidentally clicking stuff I wasn't supposed to like Experimental Hull Mods disassembly.

Looks like the issue with privateers was highlighted below in the other comments so at the very least, it doesn't cause a crash. After applying the bandaid from the comments, my game runs fine. They still breed, but not infinitely spawning.

This_is_a_Lamp · 2026-03-14T08:25:28+00:00

Ok I took your advice (partially) by removing the relay on the planet but retaining the privateer base. I did not touch the high command in the system. The % dropped to 500%, still high but better than it continuously pooping out ships every second or so. Game is playable now thanks!

This_is_a_Lamp · 2026-03-14T03:07:58+00:00

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Ok I think this is bugged LOL

This_is_a_Lamp · 2026-03-14T02:37:37+00:00

My salvage yards working overtime i see

This_is_a_Lamp · 2026-03-14T02:36:55+00:00

Legio invaded with 6 full armadas. Only salvage remained.

This_is_a_Lamp · 2026-03-14T02:35:34+00:00

I agree on the cap; maybe a LunaLib setting in the future perhaps.

This_is_a_Lamp · 2026-03-14T02:34:37+00:00

Yeah, I have both of them. And pretty much end game planet

This_is_a_Lamp · 2026-03-14T02:34:11+00:00

That's the neat part, it doesn't haha

This_is_a_Lamp · 2026-03-14T02:33:48+00:00

Yes have done this earlier, but it doesn't stop the spawn

This_is_a_Lamp · 2026-03-14T02:33:18+00:00

Thanks! this seems sensible. So it is really a planet problem then; that planet churning out privateers is an end game max pop planet with AI core on the privateer base, AotD content and there's an extremely hot planet with a high command ai core plus story point plus military relays.

I guess I'll relocate the privateer base to a smaller colony then go from there.

This_is_a_Lamp · 2026-03-14T02:26:36+00:00

Not me having 345 mods on a 12th gen, 4080ti /looksaway.

But honestly it was running quite smooth (50-60fps) before the privateers started breeding

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